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Just what the subject line says. Webster wanted very much to be the chief executive but never got closer than his post of Secretary of State--and at the time, that cabinet office stood fourth after the vice president, president pro tem of the Senate, and Speaker of the House.

So: how would Webster accomplish his long-standing ambition? (It's cheating to have him accept the nomination for vice president in 1840 and then follow Harrison: let's have him elected outright in the first place.)
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